Date announced for single game ticket sales...

[coachmastermind]

July 28th

http://www.denverbroncos.com/page.php?id=338&storyID=6883

[Beantown Bronco]

July 28th

http://www.denverbroncos.com/page.php?id=338&storyID=6883


I love that......extremely limited and "mostly single seats". That Pats have been playing that game for awhile now as well. Useless.

I always have better luck scoring decent tix from ticketmaster when they release the visiting team allocation a few days before the game. Using that method, I've found that there are always pairs available, and they're almost always in better sections than the garbage they release over the summer.

[JimmyFocus]

ive always gotten pairs and even up to 3 seats together every year you just have to hit the website right when they go on sale

[smalltowngrll]

NOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

UGH! I'll be on the cruise ship!!


Guess I'll be buying my tickets for a LOT more than face value this year! :(

[Dukes]

What's the deal with half priced tickets? Why are they half priced? Are they in undesireable sections? What?

[Beantown Bronco]

ive always gotten pairs and even up to 3 seats together every year you just have to hit the website right when they go on sale

Trust me - I do. I've got the Comcast connection and always get through on my first click within 5 seconds of their actual release. And, in the past, I've had SOME luck with getting pairs of Broncos tix (I can always get single seats or pairs in the club level); but that was before they instituted this new "mostly single seat" program that many teams seem to be employing now.

For the Pats/Broncos game here at Gillette, the Pats even admitted that the only pairs you could get from the first release of tix were standing room. Otherwise, you're stuck with single seating scattered throughout the stadium.

[Los Broncos]

I have to get my tickets. Im going to the fade if it kills me.

[smalltowngrll]

Trust me - I do. I've got the Comcast connection and always get through on my first click within 5 seconds of their actual release. And, in the past, I've had SOME luck with getting pairs of Broncos tix (I can always get single seats or pairs in the club level); but that was before they instituted this new "mostly single seat" program that many teams seem to be employing now.

For the Pats/Broncos game here at Gillette, the Pats even admitted that the only pairs you could get from the first release of tix were standing room. Otherwise, you're stuck with single seating scattered throughout the stadium.

For the playoff game Pats @ Broncos, I used ticketmaster and got face value tickets in lower level just 12 rows off the field....two of them next to each other! That was PURE luck!

For all other games, we've had luck getting them from ticketmaster close to each other.

The half price tickets are some sort of requirement that was built in when they chose to build Invesco. The tickets are all of the stadium. The only catch is that the purchaser is the ONLY person that can pick up those tickets and they MUST go directly into the stadium. There is also a limit on number of tickets and I believe you can only purchase half price tickets for ONE game a season.

[SpringStein]

What's the deal with half priced tickets? Why are they half priced? Are they in undesireable sections? What?

When the stadium was funded with tax dollars, part of the agreement was that 2,000 seats per game would be available to the average Joe and sold at half price.

I get them almost every year - they are usually close to the top of the stadium, often in ther north end zone. But they are a bargain.

[SpringStein]

STG - You can get a maximum of 4 tickets. So you can get four for one game or two sets for two games. But you are right, you have to show ID and go straight into the stadium which prevents scalpers from getting them.

[12th man]

Hopefully I will be able to hit up a couple of games this year. Right now though I don't know what games because of my work and school schedule. I am definatley planning to go to a playoff game if we host one though.

[Sassy]

So when do they go out to season ticket holders?

[TailgateNut]

They usually are available for pick-up prior to the public release of tix. Mid-July!

[TailgateNut]

STG - You can get a maximum of 4 tickets. So you can get four for one game or two sets for two games. But you are right, you have to show ID and go straight into the stadium which prevents scalpers from getting them.

I thought/ understood the 1/2 price tix are limited to 4 tix max, and one event max per household. I may be wrong!

[smalltowngrll]

per db.com

Half-Price Ticket Policy

Half-price tickets go on sale at 1 p.m. MDT on Saturday, July 28. They may be purchased through the Ticketmaster charge-by-phone system (303-830-TIXS) or through the Internet at Ticketmaster.com. In accordance with the Legislation authorizing the construction of INVESCO Field at Mile High, the Broncos will offer 2,000 half-price tickets for each game of the 2007 season. The sale of the 2,000 half-price tickets is in compliance with the Legislation and operating agreement with the Metropolitan Football Stadium District. The Broncos and the MFSD have implemented the following procedures for the purchase of half-price tickets:


The half-price tickets may only be purchased through the Ticketmaster charge-by-phone system [303-830-TIXS] or through the internet at Ticketmaster.com.
Limit up to 4 tickets FOR 1 GAME ONLY! per name, per credit card and per address. Any orders placed after your 1 game limit for half price tickets will be cancelled without notification.

Must be picked up at Will Call. Will call is the ONLY method of delivery allowed for half price tickets. NO EXCEPTIONS!-Will call is open 2 hours before game time

Must present a government issued photo identification card at Will Call. Only the name on the purchased account will be allowed to pick up the tickets, NO EXCEPTIONS!

All sales are FINAL. No refunds, exchanges or cancellations

After claiming half-price tickets at will call, buyers will be directed into the stadium immediately.

[SpringStein]

Looks like I may be Wrong again. ;)

[JimmyFocus]

Trust me - I do. I've got the Comcast connection and always get through on my first click within 5 seconds of their actual release. And, in the past, I've had SOME luck with getting pairs of Broncos tix (I can always get single seats or pairs in the club level); but that was before they instituted this new "mostly single seat" program that many teams seem to be employing now.

For the Pats/Broncos game here at Gillette, the Pats even admitted that the only pairs you could get from the first release of tix were standing room. Otherwise, you're stuck with single seating scattered throughout the stadium.


just a quick note.... i used to work answering the phones for ticketmaster .... so i sold a lot of tickets for the broncos as well as others..... there are many pairs of tickets together but they do go fast..... also you have a better chance of getting pairs of tickets together if you go for the regular price tickets right when they go on sale..... i usually get south stand tickets which i love

[Beantown Bronco]

just a quick note.... i used to work answering the phones for ticketmaster .... so i sold a lot of tickets for the broncos as well as others..... there are many pairs of tickets together but they do go fast..... also you have a better chance of getting pairs of tickets together if you go for the regular price tickets right when they go on sale..... i usually get south stand tickets which i love

I'm not disputing any of this, just pointing out that recently (past year or two in particular) several teams appear to be moving towards offering fewer and fewer pairs together for these regular season game "ticket releases". And they are doing it for two reasons: (1) scalpers are less likely to be able to grab them and re-sell them for huge profits and (2) opposing team fans are less likely to travel alone and purchase these "stand-alone" tickets.

In an even more extreme example of ticket sale limits...just look at what the Broncos did with the playoff tickets two years ago. They wouldn't even allow ticketmaster to sell to anyone with an address outside of "the Rocky Mountain Region". I'll bet you never had to deal with this when you were employed by ticketmaster....

[Hercules Rockefeller]

So when do they go out to season ticket holders?

I seem to remember getting ours in early/mid-July.

[smalltowngrll]

I'm not disputing any of this, just pointing out that recently (past year or two in particular) several teams appear to be moving towards offering fewer and fewer pairs together for these regular season game "ticket releases". And they are doing it for two reasons: (1) scalpers are less likely to be able to grab them and re-sell them for huge profits and (2) opposing team fans are less likely to travel alone and purchase these "stand-alone" tickets.

In an even more extreme example of ticket sale limits...just look at what the Broncos did with the playoff tickets two years ago. They wouldn't even allow ticketmaster to sell to anyone with an address outside of "the Rocky Mountain Region". I'll bet you never had to deal with this when you were employed by ticketmaster....


I think that theory would actually hurt them more than help them! They could care less if scalpers purchase those tickets! (I wish they WOULD care, though) They are in it for sales purposes and to sell out. Most stadiums are regulated and required to offer certain things by the codes that were written when the stadiums were built and mostly by whatever methods it was funded.

Just like the Broncos are required to offer half price tickets. The seats that we sat in for the broncos/pats playoff game were purchased on ticketmaster. They were next to some long time season ticket holders. They had tried to purchase those seats but were told that those particular seats were required to be made "single season" seats and could NOT be purchased as an addition to or part of season tickets. I did find that quite interesting and they were GREAT SEATS!!

[Beantown Bronco]

I think that theory would actually hurt them more than help them! They could care less if scalpers purchase those tickets! (I wish they WOULD care, though) They are in it for sales purposes and to sell out.

It could hurt them if the product wasn't already selling ridiculously well, but the simple fact is there is such a demand right now for NFL tickets in most of these cities that they could limit sales to just the major city that hosts the team and they'd just sell out the entire season in 15 minutes instead of 10.

[Hercules Rockefeller]

In an even more extreme example of ticket sale limits...just look at what the Broncos did with the playoff tickets two years ago. They wouldn't even allow ticketmaster to sell to anyone with an address outside of "the Rocky Mountain Region". I'll bet you never had to deal with this when you were employed by ticketmaster....

It was embarrassing how many Steeler fans were at the AFCC game 2 years ago

[smalltowngrll]

It was embarrassing how many Steeler fans were at the AFCC game 2 years ago

Yup...and that ticked me off, too! We wanted to go to that game but you could not purchase the tickets unless you LIVED there. Thus, we couldn't get them unless we paid something close to $400 a seat.


BTW...why do we have TWO threads on this? I keep getting confused! LOL

[anthonypacino]

Looks like I may be Wrong again. ;)

No don't feel bad, they changed that policy 2 years ago. Before they did I was able to get half price seats for 4 games. The year I "found" out they had changed the rule, they still took my money and didn't inform me until a week before the game. So I had to scalp tickets for the Cheifs game, then for the set that I thought they allowed me to keep, I found out that a clerical error showed that I really did have seats for the KC game and they took my Raider game seats instead, so I wound up leaving unclaimed tickets at the booth for KC and was S.O.L for the Raiders game. I went to the stadium and raised Hell until someone came outside to see me. He took me in and pulled out the KC tickets from a box, refunded the money and then found a seat for the Raiders game, it cost less then the KC one but it was nowhere near where the original was supposed to be, but I made it in.

All in all it's a crappy policy, that leaves to alot of empties on Sundays. Now I have to bring a different friend to each game so we can use their credit cards;D